Just talking to Rick about the new Elonex laptop he’s ordered, and is eagerly awaiting delivery of (to say eager… I mean the child on christmas eve who’s squidging every parcel!)
Turns out, from his blogging on the subject, his mush has ended up on google’s image site here as the first result if you search for the new ONEt… talk about 0wn3d by google !! You gotta wonder how their system works!
In other slightly alarming news:
Researchers at software vendor CA have discovered that social networking site Facebook is able to track the buying habits of its users on affiliated third-party sites even when they are logged out of their account or have opted out of its controversial “Beacon” tracking service.
according to facebook
Beacon, launched in November, tracks the transactions Facebook users make at e-commerce sites such as ticketing company Fandango and Blockbuster Video, in order to list them in the user’s “mini-feed”. It is intended, Facebook claims, as a means of “social marketing” — users recommending products and services to their peers.
Now I’m not one of these to run away from the internet screaming that someone knows my name… but this is taking things a little far isn’t it ? Is there enough information out there on the internet about me (bearing in mind I’ve been online for 13ish years) to construct a profile of me?
Will future employers be able to find out for example that I bought a copy of some 80’s B-Movie and decide not to employ me on this basis ? Worrying! - Full story here
Ahh well, back to work
More importantly… is my love and admiration of one product going to influence future employers. Time was when you could hide your past in a mush of paperwork and counter-stories. Now it’s all logged, google’d, backed up and brought forth in PDF triplicate any time you do something new.
Yay Capitalism.